The Ministry of Finance has released what it calls a preliminary report on the recently concluded I.M.F. Article Four Consultation. The document comes on the heels of a leaked version that surfaced this week in various sectors in the media. While the official version goes into greater detail than the unofficial one, the message of […]
And while incumbent politicians and concerned citizens may be hoping for an economic miracle, the most likely candidate is the seemingly miraculous tourism industry. Latest statistics from the B.T.B. indicate a just under five percent increase in total tourist arrivals for the first quarter of 2005, with arrivals at the Philip Goldson International Airport jumping […]
But while cruise arrivals appear to be growing, the new Carnival port is still tied up in legal litigation. The Supreme Court hearing initiated by the Belize Tourism Industry Association, scheduled for today and tomorrow, was this morning postponed indefinitely by Justice Samuel Awich. B.T.I.A. is going up against Prime Minister Said Musa, Attorney General […]
This week the International Labour Organization and the U.S. Department of Labour HIV/AIDS Workplace Education Programme continued with presentations to the tourism and agriculture sectors. The workshop seeks to achieve a behaviour change communication strategy that the respective companies will be able to use in their workplaces. Sheila Middleton, Coordinator, Workplace Education Prog. ?These are […]
Last year some of us adults seemed a little sceptical when the National Drug Abuse Control Council released survey results that suggested a high percentage of our children are experimenting with–and even abusing–drugs and alcohol. Well, sad to say, the results for this year are in, and unfortunately, they support previous findings. I was at […]
If you work in conservation, there is twenty thousand Belize dollars up for grabs in the annual Ford Motor Company Conservation and Environmental Grants. The 2005 edition of the competition was launched this morning during brief ceremonies in Belize City. According to Ford’s regional manager Fabrice Jund, the award is an opportunity for the multi-national […]
They may not get the glory like the doctors, nor the level of compensation, but what would any of us do without nurses? In the hope that we will never have to find out, the Nurses Association of Belize is holding “Nurses Week” to celebrate their contribution and talk about ways to ensure that more […]
It’s the grandmother of all pageants in Belize. No, we’re not talking about the Queen of the Bay, but the pageant which features real grandmothers: Ms. Y. And this year, just as in past years, the show is sure to be a crowd pleaser. Here’s a little preview of Friday night’s glamorous evening. Jacqueline Woods, […]
Many schools hold open days, but the event at the Centre for Employment Training is not only a chance for students to show what they have done, but also impress potential employers with what they can do for them. News Five was invited to the school on St. Thomas Street today where we met some […]
It sprang to life on the back of a P.U.P. Cabinet revolt and subsequent revelations of serious financial mismanagement by the Musa administration. But even at the height of public discontent with Belmopan, the knock on the Opposition United Democratic Party was that it never said exactly how it would do things better. Today the […]
And that’s where the P.U.P. butts in. Not thirty seconds after Barrow had wrapped up his press conference, the Musa administration’s point man on P.R., Minister of Information Godfrey Smith, made himself available to respond to Barrow’s statements. According to Smith, his government can climb out of its financial black hole, without raising taxes. Godfrey […]
And while Minister of Information Godfrey Smith was fighting to hold the line in his government’s war against the U.D.P., Foreign Minister Godfrey Smith was on the offensive…against key members of his own diplomatic corps. First to face the firing squad was Belize’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Stuart Leslie. The forty year old Leslie, […]
While partisan politics pushed the story off the front page, the question of who is going to own and control B.T.L. is not going to go away any time soon. Today Attorney General Francis Fonseca explained why the clock is ticking loudly. Francis Fonseca, Attorney General ?There are certain external obligations that the government have, […]
It used to be that playground squabbles would end in a black eye or busted lip. But times have changed, and a misunderstanding at a sporting venue in Belize City on Tuesday afternoon has left a thirteen year old boy hospitalised and a twelve year old in police custody. Police say that around three-thirty Tuesday […]
Police have arrested and charged four men in connection with the Monday jacking of a grocery store on Faber’s Road in Belize City. Twenty-Five year old Kirk Baird, nineteen-year-old Shane Morgan, nineteen-year-old Jordine Jergenson, and eighteen-year-old Aaron Adolphus have been charged with four counts each of robbery. Fifty-year-old Fu Hung reported to Police that sometime […]
We keep hearing that unrestrained cable television is killing our children’s reading skills…and while that may or may not be true, Belizean educators are fiercely clinging to the value of the written word. Today News 5’s Patrick Jones saw first hand that all is not yet lost. Jasmine Tillett, ?The Fox?s Cheese? ?And that Fox […]
A mysterious gunshot in Cayo has resulted in the death of one man and left police searching for clues. Around eight on Monday night, forty-two year old Miguel Angel Guevara was with friends in his yard playing cards, when the peace and quiet of the Seven Miles community on the Mountain Pine Ridge Road, was […]
He was shot in the neck as he walked on West Collet Canal in Belize City on April eighteenth, and tonight police believe they have caught the guys who tried to kill twenty-year-old Deon Blease. Authorities have arrested and charged nineteen year old Giovanni Gentle and–get this–the victim’s own fourteen-year-old brother. The youths have been […]
Two weeks ago, a bizarre crime turned up on the police blotter. As described by the authorities, it was a case of a naive American woman being conned out of thousands of dollars through the trickery of a local man she thought was her friend. But tonight Lois Ann Chandler and Vincent Omar Rodriguez are […]
Late last week, a story first appearing in the Amandala and later, circulated in the local media, recounted the details of a deal gone sour between the Government of Belize and the consulting arm of Lufthansa Airlines over management of the country’s sole international airport. According to the report, the German-based company was seeking an […]
There is good news for Belizeans who are incarcerated abroad. With the stroke of a pen today in Washington, the Government of Belize advanced the process of making it possible for people who find themselves behind bars in foreign countries to serve their sentences in the real or imagined comforts of the Hattieville prison. During […]
Her name is synonymous with beautiful and soulful music…and while it’s been a long time since we’ve heard from Radiance Thompson, she’s back with a collection of songs that is surprising in more ways than one. Radiance Thompson, Artist ?That C.D. is all about love. It?s all about issues in our lives that we come […]
Go to any club on the Friday night after payday and you’ll find that dancing is alive and well in Belize. But there’s dancing…and there’s dancing. This week the kind that is done on the stage is in the spotlight as a highly regarded teacher from abroad is in town to motivate our often hidden […]
It’s the place where virtually every Belizean performer of note got his or her start. And for the next month, the latest crop of young artists will make their pilgrimage to the Bliss. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The bright eyes and wide smiles on these children?s faces tell you just how high expectations are for this […]
With the long awaited B.T.L. board meeting and the related crippling contempt fine now behind us, the key question in the telecommunications fiasco has become: is this the beginning of the end… Or the end of the beginning? Why? Because the wrangle over who sits on the B.T.L. board is really a side show compared […]
